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Discovering Seahorses by Bryan Kearsley
• Many important discoveries resulting in new major plate varieties for the catalogue Ever since they were first issued some 90 years ago, the King George V Seahorses have been admired by stamp collectors. Yet many of their technical and philatelic aspects have remained puzzling. Much written about them is incomplete or contradictory; little was known of their printing plates or their many varieties. Over time, this has encouraged a number of myths to grow unchallenged. A product of six years’ research, Discovering Seahorses is the first comprehensive study of this issue. Based on contemporary documents and proof sheets held in our national museums and archives, together with material from private collections and dealers’ stocks, the book relates the story behind the creation of the Seahorses, and the many changes they experienced during their production over a period of 26 years. For the first time, all their plates and the quantities printed are identified. It places the numerous shades in context and illustrates many new and significant plate varieties that are expected to be included in the next Specialised Catalogue. Its detailed scope covers the Great Britain issues and all the overseas Overprints, and includes check-lists of the shades and the paper, watermark and printing varieties. This is the complete guide to all the Seahorse issues and will enable collectors to enhance their collections with discoveries and information previously unknown. OUT OF PRINT ISBN 0-907630-20-0. Size 8½ x 11 in., hardback, vi + 278 pp. + 8 colour plates. Published 2005.
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The Line-Engraved Halfpenny by W. de L. M. MessengerA critical analysis of the production of the first halfpenny stamps of Great Britain
Price £15 ISBN 0-907630-18-9. Size 170 x 240 mm, soft covers, iv + 52 pp. Published 2005.
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The Post Office and the Colleges by Vincent West
"University challenge . . . a labour of love . . . top class research and an intriguing tale . . . something akin to an episode of a highly rated TV detective show, such as 'Morse'" — Stamp Magazine, March 2005. ". . . an intriguing story, the petty bureaucracy of both parties being worthy of 'Yes Minister'" — British Philatelic Bulletin, March 2005.
Price £20 ISBN 0-907630-19-7.
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The Telegraph Stamps and Stationery of Great Britain by Peter Langmead & Alan Huggins
Peter Langmead’s renowned collections form the basis for the sections on the Private Telegraph Stamps and Forms, Post Office Telegraph Stamps, and Military & Army Telegraph Stamps and Forms. Alan Huggins has revised and expanded the Telegraph Forms listing in his British Postal Stationery to produce the section on Post Office Stamped Stationery. Price £50 ISBN 0-907630-14-6.
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'Rainbow Trials' by David Rowse
Early in May 1840 Rowland Hill was advised that several red Maltese Cross cancellations had been removed by the public from the black stamps. Hill was immensely alarmed and immediately instituted a series of trials to establish satisfactory printing and cancelling inks. The so-called 'Rainbow Trials' The published work is hardbound and illustrated in full colour. It includes much previously unseen material, which has in the main been scanned directly from the original items, to ensure as accurate as possible colour reproduction. In total there are 180 illustrations, 146 of 'Rainbow' items, including 77 from the Royal collection. Price £75 ISBN 0-907630-16-2.
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Joshua Bacon 1790-1863 by David Rowse
This is a valuable background for those who collect Line-Engraved stamps of Great Britain and the British Empire. Price £25 ISBN 0-907630-15-4.
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Great Britain King George VI Low Value Definitive Stamps by Peter Worsfold
Soft cover, iv + 40 pages, size 17 x 24cm. Price £10.
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The Plating of the Penny 1840-1864 compiled by Harold W. Fisher based on the system devised by Roland Brown
Volume 4 (Die 1, Plates 132-175) Volume 5 (Die 1, Plates 176-204, Reserve Plates 1-6)
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The Penny Lilac, Part 2 by R. A. G. Lee
Comb-bound, 97 pages, size 205 x 256 mm. Price £15.
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King Edward VIII by A. J. Kirk
Soft cover, size 172 x 244 mm, iv + 31 pages. Price £5.
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King George V Stamps Issued in Rolls by Leslie Wilkinson
Appendices give a list of plates manufactured for the continuous printing of rolls; weekly sales of British Empire Exhibition stamps in rolls; and details of rolls issued as given in Post Office reports.
Soft cover, 47 pages, size 17 x 24cm. ISBN 0-907630-12-X. Price £10.
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Specimen Stamps and Stationery of Great Britain by Marcus Samuel and Alan Huggins
Hardbound, size 183 x 242 mm, x + 254 pages. Price £30.
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British Stamp Booklets by Jean Alexander and Leonard F. Newbery
Part 1: HISTORY AND SERIES 1 TRIALS Price £4 each COMPLETE WORK as above (nine parts) Price £30.00 ISBN 0-907630-11-1
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The GB Journal - Cumulative Index to Volumes 21-36 compiled by Mike Jackson
Price £4.00 (there is a special combined offer price for all three GBJ indexes of £8).
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Book list
Queen VictoriaPlating of the Penny 1840–1864, Brown and Fisher, Vols 4 & 5 (each) £10.00 King George VKGV Stamps Issued in Rolls, Wilkinson £10.00 King Edward VIIIStudy of the Stamps of the Reign of King Edward VIII, Kirk £5.00 King George VIGreat Britain King George VI Low Value Definitive Stamps, Worsfold £10.00 SpecimensSpecimen Stamps and Stationery of Great Britain, Samuel & Huggins £30.00 BookletsBritish Stamp Booklets, Alexander & Newbery, Parts 1-9 (each) £4.00 Telegraphs/College StampsThe Telegraph Stamps and Stationery of Great Britain, Langmead & Huggins £50.00 Postal StationeryCollect British Postal Staionery, Huggins & Baker £30.00 The GB JournalBack numbers (subject to availability) (each) £4.00
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A SIMPLIFIED LISTING OF BRITISH POSTAL STATIONERY 1840 TO 2007
AN IMPORTANT NEW WORK ON THE KING GEORGE V HIGH VALUE SEAHORSE ISSUES
THE LINE-ENGRAVED ½d POSTAGE STAMP OF 1870 is one of the most-loved and widely-collected of Victorian
postage stamps. Information about this popular stamp appears in numerous handbooks and catalogues covering
British philately. However, this is the first book specifically about the ‘bantam’ ½d, its development,
its design, its printing, and its history. The author has drawn on the many published sources and has
added his own research, including from the records in The National Archives at Kew. In this new book
he presents the information in a usable way and corrects a number of errors in past writings. For the
student of this stamp this will be an essential handbook, but much will be found to interest the more
general collector of the Victorian line-engraved issues.
This book describes the relationship between the Post Office and the Oxford and Cambridge colleges
from 1871 to 1887, the period when the colleges issued their own stamps and postal stationery.
Initially the Post Office were tolerant of the college posts and their stamps, but eventually suppressed
them. This untold postal history tale of conflict between establishments, revealing the personalities of
the individuals on both sides, is based upon unpublished material in the Post Office archives.
This book presents for
the first time a comprehensive account of all of the telegraph issues of Great Britain; their background and their
usage.
THE PENNY BLACK postage
stamp was an extraordinary creation. It was the first stamp that ever portrayed the
effigy of a reigning Sovereign, and except for two minor instances which were quickly detected, the stamps
were never forged. This is the story of how the colour was changed from Black to Red.
JOSHUA BACON was the key
figure in the printers Perkins, Bacon. Yet extraordinarily little is really known
about him. This is the story of Perkins, Bacon - the company behind the printing of so many of the early postage
stamps and other high-security documents. This new 74-page hardback book, illustrated in colour and black and
white, has interest for all collectors of the stamps of Great Britain, the British Empire, and several foreign
countries who had their early stamps printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co. It will also interest collectors of
banknotes, labels, security documents and share certificates.
This is a fully
illustrated study of the development of the design of the low value definitives. The publication of
this work was funded by the Martin Willcocks bequest to the Great Britain Philatelic Society.
THIS INDISPENSIBLE
WORK is in five volumes but only Volumes 4 and 5 are in print.
This second part of Ron Lee's
work on the plate varieties on the 1881 Penny Lilac covers damage and minor varieties of the four segments, letters
and ovals. The first part (published in 1963 and now out of print) dealt with frame damage. The author personally
examined over 3.5 million copies of the Penny Lilac in the course of preparing these two volumes.
The first edition of this
book was written by Col. J. B. M. Stanton and published in 1958. Alf Kirk rewrote and revised the work and this
second edition was published in 1974. The book covers the design and development of the issue, together with
the issued stamps in all their forms
This is a comprehensive study of the subject and begins with a description of the background and trials
leading to the introduction of rolls by the Post Office in 1911. The work continues with chapters on the
Downey Head, Profile Head (both Royal Cypher and Block Cypher watermarks), Photogravure 1924 and 1925
British Empire Exhibition, the 1929 Postal Union Congress, and dummy rolls for testing machines.
Changes made to the wrappers of rolls are described throughout, and a complete listing of known types
is incorporated in the text. All of the main types and many of the variations are illustrated.
Published in 1980
this is still the standard work on the subject, written by the two acknowledged experts: Marcus Samuel
dealing with the stamps and Alan Huggins with the stationery.
THIS STANDARD WORK on
the development of British booklets was issued in nine parts as follows:
COMPREHENSIVE INDEX to
Volumes 21-36 of The GB Journal. The Index is in three parts: Postage Stamps Index; Subject Index; and Author
Index. Each entry is classified: [E] Editorial; [R] Review; [C] Correction/Addition; [N] Note; [S] Short
article—up to 1 page; [M] Medium-length article—1–3 pages; [L] Long article—over 3 pages.
This classification gives a useful guide to the nature of the articles referred to by the index entry. An
